Life is always elsewhere.
2006... Hui Ying, a middle-age woman, found out her husband is having an affair when working abroad; this news shattered the home she tried hard to maintain for years.
Yin Ling returned to Shanghai upon losing her daughter, but couldn't forget her relationship with an elder man in the country she left behind.
The elderly Wen De wanted to go to Shanghai's Waibaidu Bridge to fulfil a promise he made 40 years ago.
1966... Su Fen, who had left Singapore, made a pact with her husband to meet at the bridge 40 years later.
1942... A prostitute was torn between returning home and leaving her Nanyang lover, where did her hear belong?
Drift is a tale of two cities that spans across four generations. Caught in the speed of modernization, culture and memories are contested. We continue to search where our hearts belong, held afloat by the longing desire for life itself.
Drift is a landmark collaboration between two prominent Chinese theatre companies in Singapore and Shanghai – Drama Box and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. The multi-disciplinary theatre production had world premiered in Shanghai as part of the Singapore Season in China 2007 in November last year.
